Is this all there is?

Post date: Mar 16, 2013 8:13:55 PM

The Seven Laws of Magical Thinking, by Matthew Hutson. Very well-researched and written; the author has a remarkable ability at synthesizing and organizing disperse information in meaningful ways. The book’s subtitle, How Irrational Beliefs Keep Us Happy, Healthy, and Sane is misleading, though —what Hutson really shows, and knows, it’s that, at most, some side-effects of magical thinking, if intelligently addressed, can be made to work for you and not against you.